Emission scandal: Toyota subsidiary will pay over 1.5 billion dollars

Emissions scandal Toyota subsidiary will pay over 1.5 billion dollars

2025-01-20 Source: dpa 1 min Reading Time

Toyota's truck division Hino Motors is to pay 1.6 billion dollars for emissions fraud in the USA, according to dpa.

Hino Motors, a subsidiary of Toyota, is now being held accountable for years of cheating on emissions data for its diesel truck engines, as reported by dpa ...(Image: M. Dorschmann) — Hino Motors, a subsidiary of Toyota, is now being held accountable for years of cheating on emissions data for its diesel truck engines, as reported by dpa ...
(Image: M. Dorschmann)

Hino reached an agreement with the US authorities on the above-mentioned amount, as announced by the Ministry of Justice. It is therefore a settlement. However, the agreement will not take effect until the competent court approves it. Hino Motors has previously admitted to having misdeclared at least 105,000 diesel engines in terms of exhaust emissions. Other media are even talking about 110,000 engines with excessive emissions values. This means that the Japanese engines were illegally registered in the USA. According to the report, Hino had falsified data for years in order to circumvent regulations.

This is now coming to Hino Motors ...

The agreement includes a penalty payment of 521.76 million dollars. This includes 442.5 million dollars in civil penalties to US authorities and 236.5 million dollars to the state of California. In addition, a program worth 155 million dollars is planned to compensate for the additional air emissions caused by the violations by replacing ship and locomotive engines. There is also to be a recall program worth 144.2 million dollars to repair engines in heavy-duty trucks (construction lots 2017 to 2019). Hino will also have to endure a five-year suspended sentence during which it will not be allowed to import diesel engines from its own production into the USA, according to the final statement.

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